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Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell
10 ratingsAna�s Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020 An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown--the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical--from its author, songwriter Ana�s Mitchell with a foreword by Steve Earle On Broadway, this fresh take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has become a modern classic...Categorized as:
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Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott
14 ratingsAD 57: Caradoc is lost forever, betrayed to Rome and exiled in Gaul, leaving Boudica bereft, to lead the tribes of the west in an increasingly bloody resistance against Roman occupation.Only if she can drive Rome from the land will she find the peace she needs and to do that, she must raise once again the tribes of the east...Categorized as:
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Here, The World Entire by Anwen Kya Hayward, Anwen Hayward
10 ratingsAfter being accused of desecrating Athena's temple and subsequently cursed with monstrousness, Medusa lives alone on the outskirts of the world, secluding herself from everyone so as to keep both herself and the rest of the world safe. When Perseus comes to ask for her help, Medusa tries desperately to make him leave, but no matter what she does, Perseus stays...Categorized as:
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The Stone Queen by Jovee Winters
6 ratingsMedusa. We all know the myth. A man-hating gorgon with snakes for hair and one nasty attitude. But is that really true? Did you know that once she was a beautiful maiden with wings of white and gold? That once she knew how to laugh, how to smile, that once she even knew the love of a man. A god the world knew as War, but that she simply knew as hers...Categorized as:
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From Origins by Mary Ting
8 ratingsFaced with an impossible choice, Skylar and the other descendants embark on a deadly quest to the underworld to confront Hades, who has been plotting to kill them all. They discover the ancient gods are not dead, as once believed, but are instead held captive in a secret location...Categorized as:
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The Fall of the Phoenix by Daniel Kelly
8 ratingsThe long siege of Troy, the battles fought over it, and the city's eventual capitulation and incineration are events which have often been retold since their first recitation by Homer. Seldom, however, will they have been narrated with such close attention to the minute particulars of battle, to its reek and terror and pain, as in this startling account by Daniel Kelly...Categorized as:
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A Beautiful Curse by Kenley Davidson
10 ratingsFollow your heart… But you might just end up snacking on flies. When a bumbling fairy godfather gifts a humble woodcutter’s fourth child with extraordinary beauty, she spends the next eighteen years trying to hide it—behind a book. Now, Elisette is ready to follow her dreams and become a scholar, but her admirers keep getting in the way of her ambitions... -
Aeneid Book VI by Virgil
10 ratingsA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryIn a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld...Categorized as:
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The Coronation Ball by Melanie Cellier
10 ratingsHanna knows all about hard work. For years she’s labored to complete her apprenticeship and become a pastry chef. Driven from her home once before, she’s willing to endure whatever it takes to keep her position in the palace kitchens of Northhelm. But when she finally has a chance for all her dreams to come true, everything goes wrong... -
Tarnished by Amber Lynn Natusch
12 ratingsSean has a reputation for brutality, and it is well-deserved. Centuries of inflicting pain and punishment on anything and everything he deemed worthy slowly stole whatever light had been in him when he was born. His angelic nature fell victim to the god of war within him, just as Ares had intended.After an enigmatic encounter, a vision of Ruby comes to Sean and changes all of that...Categorized as:
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Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray’s historical fiction series comes to a stunning conclusion as the daughter of Cleopatra risks everything to revive her dynasty.After years of abuse as the emperor’s captive in Rome, Cleopatra Selene is now a powerful queen, ruling over the exotic kingdom of Mauretania with her husband, King Juba II, by her side...Categorized as:
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The Kingmaker Chronicles Complete Set by Amanda Bouchet
6 ratingsThe complete USA Today bestselling trilogy The Kingmaker Chronicles! KINGDOMS WILL RISE AND FALL FOR HER...BUT NOT IF SHE CAN HELP IT Promise of Fire Catalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods—and her homicidal mother—have saddled her with...Categorized as:
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De Historia Et Veritate Unicornis/on the History and Truth of the Unicorn by Michael Green
6 ratingsAn illuminated manuscript setting forth the fictional fifteenth-century diary of one Magnalucius, who records his first-hand observations of unicorns along with the facts he has learned about their natural history... -
George Washington Is Cash Money: A No-Bullshit Guide to the United Myths of America by Cory O'Brien
8 ratingsPREPARE TO BE BEAKED BY THE MAJESTIC EAGLE OF HISTORY Most of us are familiar with the greatest hits and legendary heroes of US history. In George Washington Is Cash Money, Cory O’Brien, author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, does away with the pomp and circumstance and calls America’s history what it is: one long, violent soap opera... -
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The Fairy Queen by Jovee Winters
8 ratingsCruel. Cold. Wicked. Just a few adjectives used to describe the most ancient of fairies—Galeta The Blue. But did you know, dear reader, that once upon a time, long, long ago, the Blue was the Benevolent Pink? Few know the trials of the fae reviled by all, save for one. The ancient and wise Creator. Galeta is the Creator’s daughter, and It will stop at nothing to save her...Categorized as:
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Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
10 ratingsIn nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use...Categorized as:
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The Fall by Rachel Higginson
10 ratingsIn Ivy Pierce’s world, Greek mythology is reality. Sirens, like herself, use men for money, power and status; but she has the greatest gift of all. Stronger than any of the Siren’s before her, Ivy’s attraction alludes to a prophecy that could mean the rebirth of Greek gods and goddesses for our modern time. The Fates believe she is the symbol of a new era...Categorized as:
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Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
12 ratingsOf all mortals, Latro was the least favoured - or the most.The wound that had destroyed his memory had given him the ability to see the unseen: the world of the gods, the demi-gods and the fabulous.Each day events were entered on a scroll so that the next morning he could know his friends, his rivals and have some understanding of what had gone before... -
Göttliches Blut by Stella A. Tack
12 ratingsEs gibt fünf Dinge,die du wissen solltest,bevor du dieses Buch liest.1. Mein Name ist Warrior Pandemos.2. Ich bin die Tochter der größenwahnsinnigenGötter Hades und Aphrodite.3. Ich wurde mit einem Gendefekt geboren, der sich Medusa-Effekt nennt. Soll heißen? Sieh mich an und du verlierst den Verstand!4...Categorized as:
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Daughter of the Mist by Quinn Taylor Evans
6 ratingsThis second spellbinding book about Merlin's daughters features Brianna--a beautiful changeling able to transform into creatures of the forest, air, and sea--and the man who wins her heart... -
Princess of Sparta by Penelope Haines
6 ratingsShe’s Helen of Troy’s older sister.She’s a Spartan Princess.She’s High Queen of Mycenae.Her name is Clytemnestra.In a world where women are submissive, she rules.In a world where wives are loyal, she is unfaithfulIn a world where honour and blood feuds abound she exacts the ultimate revenge...Categorized as:
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Haiganu. Fluviul Șoaptelor by Marian Coman, Mihai Ionașcu, Ana-Maria Arsene, Catalin Badea-Gheracostea
6 ratingsCând, într-o iarnă năpraznică, Zourazi, copilul prin vinele căruia curge sângele sacru al magilor, fuge din temnița căpcăunului Dekibalos pentru a întâlni un zeu aruncat pe pământ, lumea întreagă prinde a se schimba!Cu ”Fluviul șoaptelor”, Marian Coman îți deschide poarta către un univers straniu, în care unele personaje îți vor aminti, ca prin vis, de poveștile copilăriei, iar altele îți vor...Categorized as:
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Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr
6 ratingsHow can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades...Categorized as:
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Seer of Egypt by Pauline Gedge
8 ratingsHuy has risen from lowly origins to become the Seer of the King. Yet Amunhotep’s patronage is both a blessing and a curse to Huy, who feels imprisoned by the gift Thoth has imposed on him and by the life he must live to keep it. Though rewarded with wealth and influence, Huy longs for the pleasures of those he sees around him, especially love, which seems forever lost to him... -
Greek Mythology by Katerina Servi, Κατερίνα Σέρβη
8 ratingsGreek myth owes its immortality - often in many varied versions - to the fact that it was cultivated for at least fourteen centuries in the places where it was born by a host of epic, lyric and dramatic poets, who wished to make of it a vehicle for the ideals of the Greek world...Categorized as:
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The Twice Born by Pauline Gedge
10 ratingsYoung Huy's family is thrilled when his uncle offers to pay for the boy to attend a prestigious school at Iunu. Thanks to his generous benefactor, this farmer's son will now have a chance at a better life as a scribe... -
Crown of Cinders by Emily R. King
10 ratingsAlthea’s head is still spinning from her discovery that she’s Hera, daughter of Cronus, the terrible Titan king. After Althea failed to cast Cronus down into the deepest pit of Tartarus, the king calls upon his powerful allies, the elder Titans who reign supreme over the heavens, earth, and seas... -
Aeschylus: Seven Plays (The Greek Classics) by Aeschylus
12 ratingsThe importance of Aeschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy, as we understand it...Categorized as:
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The Erotic Poems by Ovid
14 ratingsThis collection of Ovid’s poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress... -
Starcrossed City by Josephine Angelini
14 ratingsFree online fiction.A spin-off from Josephine Angelini’s irresistible Starcrossed series. Mysterious demi-goddess Daphne meets the totally hot Ajax for the first time in sultry NYC. This is where it all begins.Available to read at: http://www.josephineangelini.com/blog..Categorized as:
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Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
16 ratingsCalled by Time the "theater event of the year," Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change...Categorized as:
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Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs by Aristophanes
18 ratingsThis volume brings together the four most acclaimed comedies of Greek playwright Aristophanes. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers - Socrates in particular - and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged...Categorized as:
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Ramses: Under the Western Acacia by Christian Jacq
18 ratingsIn the final novel in the bestselling series, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who wants Ramses to marry his daughter, while revolt is brewing among the revenge-driven Libyans...Categorized as:
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Ramses: The Lady of Abu Simbel by Christian Jacq
18 ratingsSaga about ancient Egypt & the powerful struggle between Ramses & his enemies...Categorized as:
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The Oath by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
14 ratingsThis is the first title in an epic series following the life of Odysseus - adventure, passion and battle in ancient Greece. A man becomes a hero...As a young boy in Ithaca, Odysseus listens in wonder to his grandfather Autolykos, a man feared by many across the land as a ruthless fighter. He learns of his heritage and a lifelong passion is sparked: to become an adventurer and warrior...Categorized as:
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Paneb the Ardent by Christian Jacq
12 ratingsThe bestselling author of the international triumph Ramses returns to the passion and mystery of ancient Egypt in this third volume of the Stone of Light saga.Inside a forbidden village deep in the mountainous desert, Nefer the Silent crosses paths with Paneb, a farmer's son who harbors the lofty dream of entering the fabled Place of Truth... -
Nocturne by Kat Ross
10 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Nocturne, a wilderness of eternal night.Solis, a wasteland of endless day.Nazafareen is a Breaker, a mortal who has the rare ability to shatter spell magic—although her power carries a high price... -
Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs by Aristophanes
8 ratingsThe master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations...Categorized as:
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Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
8 ratingsThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...Categorized as:
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Prickle Moon by Juliet Marillier
8 ratingsPrickle Moon is a collection of Juliet Marillier’s best short fiction. It contains eleven previously published stories and five new ones. Included are the Sevenwaters novella, "’Twixt Firelight and Water", the epic Nordic story, "Otherling", and "In Coed Celyddon", a tale of the young man who would one day become King Arthur... -
Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, the Bacchae by Euripides, Paul Roche
6 ratingsHere are three of Euripides' finest tragedies offered in vivid, modern translations...Categorized as:
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Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
6 ratingsalternate cover for ISBN: 0140446680 Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters & acute insight into destructive passion, he's also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors...Categorized as:
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Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy by Tanya Huff
6 ratingsExplore uncharted territory in this collection of heroic fantasy shorts from Tanya Huff. Annotations provide background and insight on each story. Peppered with Huffs trademark tongue-in-cheek wit and the brilliant, funny, wise, ruthless heroines that have made her famous, this is a collection you wont want to miss. Travel to Camelot in Nights of the Round Table and to ancient Egypt in Succession... -
Blinding Beauty: The Becoming Beauty Trilogy, Book Two by Brittany Fichter
6 ratingsBeauty might have married the Beast, but vows never promised anyone a simple life, least of all, the king and queen of Destin.It has been only five months since their wedding, but Ever and Isa are already being torn apart. Duty to the kingdom keeps Ever occupied, while Isa struggles to master the Fortress's mysterious fire... -
The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin
6 ratingsAida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move observed, examined and owned by a devoted, cultish fanbase. When she disappears without a trace into a complicated love affair they are determined to find her, uncover her truths and own her once more.Aida and Ehsan reconnect after a decade apart, hoping to recapture the innocent, lost love of their youth...Categorized as:
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Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt
6 ratingsWhen his father dies, and he is reduced at a stroke from prosperity to penury, Euxenus decides to leave Athens and seek his fortune elsewhere. As a philosopher and intellectual of some note, he has no difficulty getting a job as tutor to a young prince in the wealthy but utterly provincial court of King Philip of Macedon. The young prince is called Alexander, and the rest is history...Categorized as:
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The White Jade Fox by Andre Norton
6 ratingsSaranna had heard rumors about Tiensin, the strange old mansion with its oriental treasures. She had heard it was haunted. Now with her own eyes she had seen it was true. The Macabre circle of small foxes ringing the dancer in the secret garden, the mysterious robed woman with a fox’s face. Had Saranna realy seen them? Or had she dreamed it? Saranna had gone to Tiensin under protest... -
Damsels in Distress by Laura Kenyon
6 ratingsOne part Sex and the City. Two parts Desperate Housewives. Three parts Brothers Grimm.The Desperately Ever After series takes a whimsical look at our most beloved fairy tale princesses several years after true love’s kiss. With laughter, wine, and a new take on old-fashioned chivalry, these friends see each other through life’s trials one secret at a time...
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